Event overview
Culture & Finance Capital - Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2016
Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS), Money – The Invisible Bind
Thursday 6 October, 5.00-7.00pm
Please note the change in venue for this event, which will now take place in the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre.
Chair: Louis Moreno
Money is at once the most familiar and the most mysterious of economic phenomena. It has a deeply contradictory nature, the analysis of which calls for much more than economics. Dollars, euros and pounds are commonplace things carried in people’s pockets, but also highly complex social relations registered in the books of financial institutions. They are able to bind individuals utterly foreign to each other, and equally able to split asunder entire families and communities. In this lecture Costas Lapavitsas considers the philosophical and political dimensions to money’s social and economic power. The lecture will also reflect on Lapavitsas’s analysis of Greece in the Eurozone crisis, asking what new political strategies and theoretical approaches are available to overcome these invisible binds?
Costas Lapavitsas is Professor in Economics at SOAS. His research focuses on the financialisation of capitalism, its characteristic trends, variable forms and manifold implications for contemporary society. His work on financialisation includes the recent books published by Verso : 'Against the Troika' (2015), 'Profiting Without Producing' (2015) and 'Crisis in the Eurozone' (2012). During 2015 he was elected as a Member of Parliament in Greece.
Culture & Finance Capital
The nature of contemporary capitalism has radically altered in the last forty years: financial activity dominates over production, speculative investment is commonplace, indebtedness is a globalising condition, austerity targets the most vulnerable. These developments have not only changed the economic system, they have produced a new culture with widening inequality reshaping the social landscape of education, housing and public space. In this programme we shall explore the intricacies of the phenomenon called 'financialisation': surveying the way the credit system relates to everyday life, and hearing how artists, curators and activists are confronting finance from within the site of culture.
Series organisers: Louis Moreno & Tom Trevatt
The events are free. No booking is required. All are welcome!
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Oct 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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